“Miranda Lambert Can’t Believe the Gypsy Rose News Cycle”

Before Gypsy-Rose Blanchard made headlines for the 2015 murder of her mother Dee Dee, which left her subjected to a lifetime of unnecessary medical procedures and abuse as part of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, she met Miranda Lambert — and several other country stars – via the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Lambert opened up about that experience and her reaction to the shocking news cycle that has revolved around the mother-daughter pair over the past decade in a new conversation with Theo Von Last weekend Podcast.

“Super, super sweet girl,” Lambert says of Gypsy-Rose, confirming that she has met her “several times.”

At the time, Lambert believed—like the rest of the world, including Gypsy-Rose—that the young girl was rightly suffering from leukemia, muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, and a host of other illnesses that Dee Dee attributed to her.

“I believed her. I did,” Lambert continues, referring to Dee Dee’s story. “When (the news about her murder and Munchausen syndrome by proxy) came out, I freaked out.”

The singer goes on to say that she received a text message from someone asking if she had seen it Mom dead and dearthe 2017 documentary chronicling the story of the Blanchard family. Lambert then worked on the case.

“And I went down all the rabbit holes. I'm in this. “100 percent,” she continues, saying that she has followed Gypsy-Rose’s story to the present day.

Gypsy-Rose was released from prison on parole in late 2023 after serving eight years of a 10-year sentence for second-degree murder. Since then, she has given numerous interviews, released an e-book, participated in a documentary series, and announced that she is expecting her first child in January 2025.

Lambert says she wasn't the only country star who spent time with the Blanchards at the time. “Her mother ran the system and it worked,” she says. “We got to know them all. The whole country music community. Ask any of us. She was a part of it.”

Although Gypsy-Rose's story is very different from what Lambert thought at these meetings, it indicates that Gypsy-Rose legitimately believed she was ill at the time.

“But for her it was real. She was a child. She was a little child,” she says, adding that she was “very authentic.”

Lambert also says that Gypsy-Rose has not contacted her since she was released from prison. “I mean, it’s been so long,” she remarks. “Maybe she could have put it all behind her, which is what I would have done if I were her.”